• 2022:
ACM Fellow • 2018:
ACM Distinguished Member • 2016: Article "On compressing and indexing repetitive sequences", with Sebastian Kreft, included in the Virtual Special Issue "40th Anniversary of Theoretical Computer Science -- Top Cited Articles: 1975–2014", which collects the most cited articles of each year. • 2016: Highest Cited Paper Award of Elsevier, for the articles "On compressing and indexing repetitive sequences" which are among the 5 most cited papers in Theoretical Computer Science. Similar award for the article "DACs: Bringing direct access to variable-length codes", among the 5 most cited in Information Processing and Management, and "Improved Compressed Indexes for Full-Text Document Retrieval", among the 5 most cited in Journal of Discrete Algorithms. • 2009: Included in the book "70 Stories of success in Innovation and Science", published by the Ministry of Economy and several government research funding agencies, Chile, 2009. • 2008: Award Scopus Chile 2008 in Computer Science, Mathematics and Engineering, awarded by Elsevier to researchers with high scientific productivity, with the support of Conicyt (Chile) • 1996: First prize in the III CLEI-UNESCO Contest of Latin American Computer Science MSc. Theses. == References ==